The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

What makes this discovery even more interesting is that ices are not known to survive in planetary nebulae.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this rendering, light from passing satellites mars a photo taken by a space telescope. NASA Ames / A. S. Borlaff, P. M. Marcum, ...

The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as ...

Scientists have created the most detailed map yet of dark matter using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in physics. Scientists say it makes up most of ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...

Katelyn Eaman can appreciate the power of the sun better than most. The geology graduate student researches how Mars’ now-barren landscape was carved and transformed by ancient waterways. That water ...

Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...